Archive - Reimagining the Good Life

The Story We Tell About Down Syndrome

A diagnosis is never just a set of facts. The stories surrounding it shape the choices we make. Plus three links worth your time...

Jun 17

Special Olympics and a Summer of Saying Yes to Connection

The gift (and necessity) of showing up, even when you don't want to. Plus three links worth your time

Jun 10

What I Want for Our Son (and What I Can't Give Him)

The blessing, fear, and hope of launching a child into adulthood. {Plus two links worth your time}

Jun 3

May 2026

Interdependence and the Ideal Human

Blind travelers, sighted travelers, and the gifts we cannot access by ourselves. {Plus NEW episodes on Reimagining the Good Life and two links worth…

May 27

Not All Suffering Leads to Hope

In my hospital bed as a teenager, I clung to a verse about hope and suffering, but I overlooked the line that mattered most. {Plus two links worth your…

May 20

Opening My Hands to the Undone Things

Unfinished lists, delayed gifts, cluttered desk—maybe none of this is a failure {Plus a link worth your time}

May 13

Twenty Years Ago, I Imagined a Bleak and Lonely Future

What’s at stake for disability rights—and how images, stories, and research shape hope {Plus three links worth your time}

May 6

April 2026

Prescription Refills, Ubering, and Permission to Hope

Part of dreaming big is starting small {Plus three links worth your time}

Apr 29

What if no one had to prove they mattered?

A Tuesday night with a Special Olympics track team reminded me of a different way to belong. {Plus... I'm hiring! And three links worth your time}

Apr 22

I’ve Worried What Disability Means for Siblings

The way we narrate disability directly affects the way we treat individuals and families with disabilities. {Plus... I'm hiring! And three links worth…

Apr 15

The Doors I Didn't Know I Was Closing

The strange grief, and surprising gratitude, of the choices that shape a life. {Plus three links worth your time}

Apr 8

Why I Am Pro-Aging

Celebrating wrinkles, gray hairs, and life {Plus two links worth your time}

Apr 1